An Extract from This Month's Release: Family and the Fey
I've decided to celebrate each release with a series of extracts that run for the month it's released in. This month saw the second edition of 366 Days of Flash Fiction released. Links to the collection can be found at Books2Read at: https://books2read.com/u/b6MrN0 Family and the Fey Written on December 12, 2015, for the March 18 entry of 366 Days of Flash Fiction , this piece revisits the idea of the elves-under-the-hills coming to live in a new land. Lemons filled the tree, like colored baubles on a Christmas pine. Dew drops sparkled in the early morning sun, throwing colored rainbows in the shadowed leaves. As the sun rose, the dew drops disappeared, and the sparkling stopped. Tani stared at the tree, watching the transformation, thinking that Christmas was very far away. When the sun reached her window, she sighed and pulled the curtains; it was the only way to keep the heat out. It was just a shame it kept the sunlight out, as well. She didn’t close the wind...